Regarding the fact that my best friend is a magical girl

"Serno".

Her hand reached out from under the water and found mine near my leg. I flinched, but she still took my hand.

Their fingers were intertwined.

“...Miluno”.

My voice is as soft as a mosquito's buzz.

"Ah."

But Miluno only responded indifferently.

"I'm really happy that you said you like me."

"Ah."

"However, the real me is not good enough for you... You don't know me yet."

She countered with, "Then do you understand me?"

"what?"

Do you know what the real me is like?

"……do not know."

"If my appearance after turning back doesn't suit you, will you hate me because of it?"

"will not."

My answer came without any hesitation.

I can accept whatever the real Miluno is like.

However, I have a feeling that she is a little older than me, since she is very good at taking care of people.

"Then we're even, aren't we?"

She leaned closer to me and said, "I feel the same way you do. No matter what you were like before, I can accept it. So... give up on Bai Ziye, okay?"

Miluno was getting anxious.

She mistakenly thought I had those kinds of feelings for Ye Zi, so she lost her previous calm and composed demeanor.

Is she that afraid of losing me?

So, I'm that important to Miluno.

Realizing this gave me more courage.

"Miluno, actually I was originally... a boy."

I slightly opened my eyes to observe Miluno's reaction, but I didn't see the astonishment I had imagined. She just looked at me calmly.

"Isn't that a good thing?"

She laughed and replied, "It's much easier for you to do many things if you're a boy than to make a girl fall in love with another girl... It would be strange if you liked Bai Ziye, wouldn't it?"

An unexpected answer.

Is this Miluno's optimistic consolation, or does she really think so?

"As a guy, I'm not as handsome as Ye Zi, nor do I have his great personality, and I also have incurable hobbies and terrible habits..."

Miluno turned around, and because we were so close, her not-so-large breasts brushed against my arm, and my heart almost stopped for a moment.

"That's alright, I can accept everything about you, so Seruno... no matter what your reason is for not being able to turn back now... promise me that you will eventually turn back into a boy, okay?"

The warmth of her body made me instinctively squeeze my legs together.

But Milno gazed at me intently.

"I will wait for that day."

Chapter Sixty Untitled

(Albinocotyledon)

Seruno, standing before me, responded softly, her face flushed.

"If you can still accept me by then, I'll say yes..."

Great!

Although he showed no outward expression, he was inwardly celebrating and couldn't help but hold Serino's delicate, calloused hand tightly.

The first stage of the "straightening surgery" was a success. I didn't expect her to reveal her gender on her own initiative. In a sense, this helped me achieve my goal.

I continued, "The day you turn back into a boy, I will confess my love to you again."

This is a vaccination.

If I make her look forward to my confession, she won't continue to be stuck in her girl identity and have those kinds of thoughts about "Bai Ziye".

"...Hmm, it won't be long."

If nothing unexpected happens, once Yang Yan is discharged from the hospital, the online condemnation of "Sun Yao" will gradually subside. After all, the target has vanished, and those angry young people can't keep attacking the void all day long. As long as he keeps a low profile, he will always find a way to be himself again and return to a normal life.

From my personal experience, as long as one doesn't maintain the persona of a magical girl for an extended period, it's less likely for one's inner self to become feminine. It's entirely possible to maintain the life of a normal male high school student while fighting as a magical girl.

Seruno, standing beside her, mumbled in a sticky, affectionate tone, "Miluno's legs are so much longer than mine..."

Looking through the surface of the hot spring, Serino stretched out her legs, her toes only reaching a little above my ankles.

If you measure from my feet to my belly button, my leg length is about 1.1 meters, while hers is at most 90 centimeters. But in terms of body proportions, she doesn't have short legs at all; she has long legs for a petite frame.

but……

"Serno, since you're a boy, you shouldn't care about these things."

In my opinion, comparing body shapes and such is something only women do.

I must correct any of her feminine tendencies and restore her masculine spirit.

"Hmm, does it have to be this strict?"

She squinted and shrank her body underwater, but had to press down with her hands on her chest to counteract the buoyancy of her chest.

"Since he's my future boyfriend, he should naturally show some masculinity, right?"

Half-jokingly, Seruno pondered and asked, "...I'm a boy, so I should go next door?"

"Then forget it. We can't let 'Bai Zi Ye' get the advantage."

"hey-hey."

I looked up at the volcano outside the glass curtain wall, but all I could hear was Serino's hearty laughter, which sounded both sweet and silly.

"What are you grinning about?" I asked, looking at her.

"I just feel that Miluno isn't as aloof as she seems."

"I have never considered myself to be an iceberg; that's just an impression imposed on me by the media and other people."

"So I'm glad I understand you better now, Miss Miluno, whom others don't know."

Perhaps it was because my "confession" lowered my stance that her attitude towards me gradually became more neutral, no longer one of worshipful admiration.

They're more like "friends" than "idols".

Although we are...

The sound of footsteps echoed as Seruno and I looked toward the entrance.

I was a little nervous because I didn't know who was coming.

"Wow! You two are pretty quick!"

After the rising steam, Sirius's loud voice rang out.

The petite blonde idol walked from the direction of the dressing room. My own body or Seruno's body was fine, but seeing other women's bodies still felt a bit inappropriate.

But Sirius is really something. She knew about my situation with Serino, yet she still dared to walk in so brazenly.

Just as I was about to cover my eyes to avoid it, a beam of golden light pierced through my closing eyelids, and in my hesitation, I saw the source of the light...

Goodness, as expected of a magical girl who manipulates light, even soaking in a hot spring is surrounded by holy light. Her vital parts are covered by three tangible rays of light, so even if you wanted to see them, you couldn't.

"Wow! Miss Sirius, I'm going out right now!"

Seruno, who had closed her eyes early, hadn't reacted yet. Afraid of seeing Sirius's body, she tried to stand up from the water while covering her face with her eyes closed, splashing me with hot spring water.

"Calm down, she's a paladin!" She hadn't been kicked yet.

"Wow!"

The stones at the bottom of the pool are quite slippery and difficult to stand on, and there are steps that are not visible above the water.

I say this because in her panic, Seruno tripped over the underwater steps and, following the force of gravity, fell towards me.

The question of whether to accept the call or not has become a dilemma.

My male personality feels guilty when I touch Seruno's body as a girl.

But if she dodges, she might bump into the bare stone steps and get hurt... or if she doesn't dodge, she'll be greeted by a wave of face wash.

"careful!"

Several silk scarves flew from behind Sirius, securing Seruno's limbs and stopping her from falling.

It's Spica.

"Don't play around in the hot spring, it's dangerous."

The magical girls each displayed their unique abilities while soaking in the hot springs; Sirius had a holy light, while Spica used a silk scarf to cover her private parts.

Wait, wasn't that against the rules?

You can't even wear a swimsuit in the hot spring.

Seruno quietly opened her eyes, only to find that the two newcomers had covered their private parts, almost like they were wearing swimsuits.

"Oh, you scared me to death."

She breathed a sigh of relief.